Prehistoric Beasts

What did a penguin's great, great, great, great, GREAT grandparent look like? Find out with incredible POP-UP pages! Palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax takes a closer look at seven wild animals and, using fossil clues, reveals who their prehistoric relatives were. From a mighty whale to a tiny dragonfly, find out about the wild creatures and their animal families today. Then open the fold-out pages to reveal awesome pop-ups, bringing you face-to-face with their long-extinct ancestors. Go head-to-head with the woolly mammoth, meet the mega shark Megalodon and get to know the prehistoric penguin named Icadyptes . Discover how these animals lived long ago, how they are different to their modern relatives - and how they are the same. Full of fascinating facts, bright illustrations and real fossil finds, meet PREHISTORIC BEASTS of the past.